Apparently, the Hurricanes have brought on Richard Simmons as a uniform consultant, because during spring practice yesterday, the team sported short shorts that left little to the imagination…
If there’s one defining feature of the Tea Party movement it’s that members hate freeloaders who let taxpayers, the government, or political money pick up their expenses (read: welfare, the stimulus, bailouts, etc.). Wonder how they’ll respond to the revelation that their current poster boy charged personal expenses to a…
Ousted West Miami Mayor Cesar Carasa says he’ll run again — you know, when he’s not busy macking on Dominican girls and trying to sell them shoes. [Herald]Oh, look, local women have dreams of one day competing in Olympic pole dancing. [NBCMiami]Two women pleaded guilty for trying to rob an…
Move over Burn Notice, a new cable crime show is coming to town.Both The Hollywood Reporter and Variety report has picked up scripted-series Sugarloaf for 13 episodes, and the series will begin shooting in Miami soon for a premiere this summer.Though, unlike Burn Notice, the show actually won’t be set…
Hummer, the gas-guzzling line of consumer SUVs that were almost as controversial as they were ugly, is dead. General Motors laid the money-losing brand to rest today after negotiations with a Chinese firm to sell the division fell through.This is horrible news for Horatio Caine, limo drivers who specialize in…
A trainer was found dead inside SeaWorld’s Shamu Stadium today.SeaWorld hasn’t released information about the incident, but a witness claims to an Orlando television station that she saw the incident.”Telly (the whale) took off really fast in the tank and he came back, shot up in the air, grabbed the…
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Yesterday, Massachusetts’ sometimes-nude republican Senator Scott Brown crossed party lines to prevent a filibuster of a democratic-backed jobs bill. His supporters and Facebook “friends” were not very happy about this: “You’ve already turned out to be just as big an idiot as Obama!” wrote one.Now, Florida’s temporary Republican Senator George LeMieux has…
The Miami Vice movie could’ve been as great and iconic as the series that preceded it. Instead it was met with decent, but not exactly enthusiastic reviews and managed to only get back about $65 million of its reported $125 million budget at American box offices.But if you thought it…
To loyal users, Yelp.com is a helpful way to find and share reviews of local businesses, but some proprietors claim the website’s practices represent something closer to extortion.Miami-based law firm Beck & Lee has joined a San Diego firm to file a class action suit against the company, according to…
Last week, ten naked people on Delray Beach attempted to arranged themselves in a peace symbol and take a picture. We’re not sure how much of an effect this would have had on world peace, but it seems like a fairly innocuous act of unrestrained hippie-dom.Maybe that’s because we live…
Just as it’s illegal to feed pigeons in certain parts of London, Miami now wants to make it illegal to feed homeless people in certain parts of the city.A proposed ordinance will come before the Miami Commission next month that would make it illegal for unauthorized people and groups to…
After a high-speed boat chase, U.S. Customs agents arrested seven people believed to be involved with smuggling humans and narcotics. One person was killed in the pursuit after jumping overboard to escape. [NBCMiami]A local company will donate 1,000 prefabricated homes to earthquake victims in Haiti. [Herald]A neighboring hotel complained that…
Because Floridians honor the age old tradition of democracy so-so much, the current race for the state’s open Senate seat now revolves around pictures of embarrassing man hugs. This truly was our founding fathers’ dream.On your left you’ll find a picture Florida Governor Charlie Crist embracing then newly elected and…
Let’s be honest. The brightest star in the black hole of mediocrity that is the South Florida sports landscape is Dwyane Wade. As we all know, he enters free agency after this season. While we’re about 75 percent sure he’ll stay with the Heat, the media is going to have…
As God as our witness, Florida will not rest until we put a bullet between the eyes of every alien python, anaconda, and monitor lizard in this state. They have taken our pets, they have taken our Everglades, they have taken our alligators, they have even taken our children, and…
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Earlier this month, Danny Williams, the head of government in Canada’s Newfoundland province, traveled to Miami Beach to receive heart surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center.Cue the predictable right-wing response taking digs at Canada’s publicly funded, liberal-loved health-care system: “We keep hearing how terrible and awful the American health-care system…
The Florida for Life Act might as well be titled the Florida for Life Imprisonment of Doctors Providing Abortions Act, because that’s essentially what it would do.The proposed bill, filed by Rep. Charles Van Zant and cosponsored by four other male Republicans, would outlaw most abortions in the state. The…
Not being in the target audience, we know only these things about the Twilight movies: sparkling vampires, forbidden love, vagina allergies, Kristen Stewart’s pouty face, and Taylor Lautner’s abs.None of this makes us want to run out and chomp on a Whopper and onion rings. Especially the abs part. (When will society…
The Dolphins might be cooking up various schemes to get South Florida taxpayers to foot the bill for the proposed makeover of Sunny D Sun O))) Sun Life Stadium so the city can host future Super Bowls, but a new study shows Miami didn’t receive much of an image boost from the…
The string of cat killings that rocked Palmetto and Cutler Bay last summer may have ended when police arrested 18-year-old suspect Tyler Weinman, but investigators haven’t been able to link Weinman’s DNA to the case.Eleven of the 19 cats’ bodies were tested for human DNA and none was found. They…
